My wife has just said that unless I can give her a list of five accomplishments I’ve achieved last week I can forget lunch; a non-response and I’m out of here (Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements, 23 February).
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• Perhaps MI6 could smuggle copies of the Guardian into the White House in the coming months to help influence the shape of US foreign policy (The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war, 22 February).
Paresh Motla
Thame, Oxfordshire